BIO
Joaquín Ortego Lozano (Toledo, 1981) is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at Estación Biológica de Doñana (Spanish National Research Center).
PROJECT
His project will study the oak and holm oak forests of California to analyze the consequences of global change at the scale of genes, species and communities.
The aim is to examine the demographic history of different species in this community and determine to what extent different taxa (groups of related organisms) have presented similar responses to climate changes in the past, check different demographic models against the genome data, deduce the demographic parameters for a representative number of the species making up the Quercus community and use them to determine their future demographic trends with respect to different scenarios of global climate change.
This will allow a prediction to be made of the size of the potential processes of population fragmentation and loss of genetic diversity.